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We keep plugging away and building great new articles and content to share and help you gain the most benefit from your Rational products... here's what went live on developerWorks Rational this week: Agile embedded product-line development with Rational Team Concert Harry Koehnemann describes the problems that hardware, software, and project management teams at 321 Gang faced, the practices and tool changes that helped them, and what challenges remain in... [More]

There is so much great content to share this year! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational last week: The value of effective requirements management in the nuclear energy industry By: Paul L. Fechtelkotter, Global Business Segment Leader, Energy and Utilities, Rational software, IBM How IBM addresses compliance and collaboration challenges in the nuclear energy industry Back up Rational software user data for quick disaster recovery By: Pranab Agarwal, Advisory Staff Software Engineer, IBM How to configure... [More]

Using scrum methods with Rational Team Concert Version 4: Part 1. Set up the project, team area, and Product Backlog Summary: Starting with Version 1.0, IBM® Rational Team Concert has supported the scrum project management approach. Over the years since, both this collaborative software and its support for scrum and agile teams have improved dramatically. This article, updated for Version 4.0.1, replaces previous articles and explains how to use RTC effectively within a scrum team. Part 1 walks you through setting up your project and team and... [More]

Our fabulous developerWorks content authors have been at it again! Check out all the great items that have gone live on developerWorks Rational in the last three weeks: Integrate enterprise and software architectures By: Steve Arnold, Senior Technical Consultant, IBM and Jas Atwal, Technical Consultant, IBM Save time and find traceability gaps by linking enterprise architecture elements in IBM Rational System Architect with model elements in IBM Rational Software Architect extension for Design Management. Products: Rational Software... [More]

The new year is starting to really ramp up as we all return from our holidays and start digging into strategies and goals for 2013... Of course one of those goals is to remain committed to bringing you the latest and greatest content you need! So, here you go! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational this week: Three steps to rapid development of high-quality medical devices By: Keith Collyer, PhD, Senior Solution Manager, Electronics and Medical Devices Industry Solutions, IBM, Martin R. Bakal, Worldwide Offering Manager,... [More]

We've got a lot of great stuff to share, so let's dig right in to it! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational last week: Adopt pragmatic architecture for agile application lifecycle management By Jean-Louis Maréchaux Agile teams benefit from applying design management to producing and maintaining software-intensive systems. This article describes a pragmatic approach to efficient collaboration on designs in an application lifecycle management (ALM) environment. It uses realistic examples and focuses on concrete... [More]

When we think of the phrase "Social Support" one of the common images is likely of "@comcastcares" and their breakthrough efforts at turning client perception from heavily negative to the positive through their twitter account and addressing client complaints. Other more broad views may simply be of companies engaging with clients in spaces like Facebook or Twitter... but that view, dear friends, misses a huge area of social support which has existed long before these new social media channels: Forums. Without losing... [More]

It doesn't take long for our amazing content authors to break out of a short week and come back with much more to highlight for you all. Checkout the following XML series and other items that went live on developerWorks Rational this past week: Test XML messages over WebSphere MQ , Part 1 By Bharath Raj Keshavamurthy Get an in-depth understanding of the latest feature of Java Message Service and WebSphere MQ testing, which is embedded in the Rational Performance Tester generic service client. In Part 1 of this three-part tutorial, you'll... [More]

It may be a short list, but the quality is still there and exactly what you've come to rely on from developerWorks Rational ! Here are the items that went live on developerWorks Rational last week: Enable or disable validators in Rational Application Developer By Rosendo Martinez, Software Engineer, J2EE Tools Developer and Validation Framework Lead, IBM Mexico Using the validation framework, you can create custom validators to validate projects and resources created with IBM Rational Application Developer. The framework provides... [More]

As you've come to expect, and possibly rely upon, here's the past two weeks of content that has gone live on developerWorks Rational : How Linked Lifecycle Data can transform your systems engineering environment By Benjamin N. Williams Organizations are building increasingly complex products and systems, and this engineering is generating more and more data with ever-increasing complexity. This trend is likely to continue. Ben Williams explains how Linked Data architectures enable... [More]

We're always working to bring you deeper value to the products you use. From our support perspective, this doesn't just mean troubleshooting tips or solutions to errors. It also means larger implementation content and best practices! Helping you avoid issues by highlighting best practices before trouble is seen is just another of those ways we help make sure you are as successful with these products as you need to be! That's exactly why we bring you this periodic series of rollups form our developerWorks community and libraries... that in... [More]

While we here at Notes from Rational Support try to provide you, our clients, with great support driven content to help you succeed, we also know that support isn't your only concern! Driving further improvement, streamlining, and innovation within your own organization is just as critical. And you're in luck, not only is support devoted to helping you, but our Rational Executive sponsored blog is focused on the same success points as well! So if you haven't been over there yet, take a moment to dig in to the past month of recent posts... [More]

Back to school has come and gone, and we're inching towards those important life choices we all must make soon: What to be for Halloween! I jest, of course, as a way to help divert your attention from the stresses of your kids' school work and woes, and hopefully help you focus back in on your own work and success... To that end, here are the articles, downloads, and truly great content that went live on developerWorks Rational last week: Improve the value of CLM reports by using metrics: A guide to using metrics with Rational... [More]

Wow! Do we ever have a jam-packed "back to school" version of Live on developerWorks Rational for you today! So without further delay, let's dive right into the great articles which have gone live on developerWorks Rational over the past few weeks: August 21 Record Android client app test scripts in Rational Performance Tester By Valerio Pengue, Software Performance Engineer, IBM Learn how to use the Rational Performance Tester and the Android emulator to set up a simple framework to record an HTTP test for an Android... [More]

How about some nice summer reading while those earlier product bits you grabbed finish downloading and installing... The following articles went live on developerWorks Rational this week: Adopt and automate proven processes with Rational and Jazz tools, Part 2 By Ricardo Balduino, Senior Software Engineer, IBM, USA Ricardo Balduino describes how to take a process already defined in Rational Method Composer and automate it in Rational Team Concert. This makes it far easier and faster to adopt proven patterns of success and also makes it... [More]

A lot of IBMers have been busy writing, demoing, and generally creating new content to help us all succeed. That in mind, here's what went live last week on developerWorks Rational : Overcome resistance to enterprise architecture By Jan K. Gravesen, Executive Industry Architect, IBM, USA Although it keeps evolving and interest keeps growing, many enterprise leaders are still ambivalent or skeptical about enterprise architecture. Jan Gravesen discusses the considerable value that EA offers and how it can be implemented to... [More]

Great content is hard to keep down.... it demands to be shared, which is why we bring you this semi-regular series! The following items went live this week on developerWorks Rational : Improve C/C++ app performance with Rational Developer for Power Performance Advisor By Mike Kucera, Software Developer, IBM, Canada Performance Advisor, introduced in Rational Developer for Power Systems Software 8.5, helps you get better performance from C/C++ applications that run on IBM Power Systems. In this tutorial, Mike Kucera shows you how it works.... [More]

With Innovate2012 being our focus for the past two weeks, we've held on to some of the great content coming out of developerWorks Rational to make sure we highlighted it when you'd all be back and ready for it! So here you go; the following are the wonderful articles which went live on developerWorks Rational over the past two weeks between June 5th and 15th: Accelerate test cycles with Rational Quality Manager and a cloud test lab By Pietro Marella, Advisory Engineer, IBM, Italy Extend Rational Quality... [More]

Not able to get to Innovate 2012 this year? Leaving Innovate today and need things to read on your flight home? Either way, have no fear, we've got more great content for you!The following items went live on developerWorks Rational over the past two weeks: Support for ISO C11 added to IBM XL C/C++ compilers By Rajan Bhakta (rbhakta@ca.ibm.com), Technical Architect z/OS XL C/C++ ISO C Standard representative for Canada, IBM The new ISO C programming language standard provides several features to aid in programming... [More]

Such a busy week around here, we can barely squeeze in all the great content coming our way! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational this week: Calculate your future ROI for software and systems By Murray Cantor Murray Cantor, PhD, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, shows how to compute the ROI for software or systems in a way that accounts for both uncertainties in future costs and benefits. His formulas gauge whether the ROI measures value received from money spent or predicted ROI from future investments. Product:... [More]

WOW! A LOT of wonderful content has been filtering through developerWorks Rational over the past two weeks, and it seems we've been a bit remiss in passing it on to you all! Please accept our heartfelt apologies in the form of this week's Live on developerWorks post highlighting the items that went live on developerWorks Rational over the past two weeks: Clustering algorithms help find similar Rational Team Concert change requests By: Luis Quintela (lquintela@us.ibm.com), Solution Architect, IBM By using clustering algorithms to... [More]

Kelly Smith , the one and only illustrious @Kellypuffs , owner and co-author of this very blog , was recently awarded with "developerWorks Contributing Author" status, a milestone that formally acknowledges the publishing achievements of prolific developerWorks authors, and celebrates our common commitment to knowledge sharing. Kelly achieved Contributing Author status for her two articles on "How to work with Rational Client Support". If you've not seen them, you're missing out. Kelly outlines who we are, our best... [More]

It's Presidents Day here in the U.S. and Family day in Canada, which both mean site holidays for a good number of us. But have no fear, we'll be back tomorrow with our normal daily posts bringing both technical content and other interesting content to help you become the go-to person for solutions and a thought leader in your own organization! Don't think we're leaving you stranded though... If you're unlucky enough to be stuck at work today, here's what went live on developerWorks Rational last week, which will hopefully help you fill those... [More]

Well why aren't you an IBM Rational community member yet? Find conversations To see the latest forum discussions from developerWorks and Jazz.net, click the Share tab of our community home page . Also in this space, you'll find the latest event announcements and Twitter conversations about #ibmrational. Follow the feeds, visit the bookmarks, and check out the wikis! The Feeds section of the community provides some of the best feed links for Rational Software. Of great note is the From the Rational bloggers link which is an... [More]

Take note, there's been some great stuff coming across the developerWorks Rational page over the past two weeks! Check out the following highlights, demos, articles, webcasts, and whitepapers: We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Steve Hovater Steve is a Senior Managing Consultant with the IBM Rational Lab Services in the US. Over the past 10 years, he has supported Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, among other... [More]

The following four part series surrounding compliance documentation using Rational Publishing Engine and other additional items went live on developerWorks Rational last week: Using Rational Publishing Engine to document compliance: Part 1. Overview and workflow By Dr. Einar W. Karlsen (einar.karlsen@de.ibm.com), Solution Architect, North-East Europe, IBM This series explains how to use IBM Rational Publishing Engine to generate compliance-relevant reports. Part 1 gives a short overview of... [More]

Rational's weekly round up of articles, trials, blogs, and other content is once again updated and available! The following items went live on developerWorks Rational this week: Change management in mainframe applications: Identify assets By Amy M. Silberbauer (asilber@us.ibm.com), Executive IT Specialist, IBM Software maintenance can require up to 70% of your IT budget, so managing change to shorten the maintenance cycle, reduce risk, and ensure quality is critical in today's economy. This three-part series... [More]

Here it is; your weekly roundup of articles and other content which has gone live on developerWorks Rational this week: A practical guide to developing enterprise architecture By Franki Schafrik, Senior Enterprise Architect, IBM With humor, Franki Schafrik guides you through identifying the questions that enterprise architecture must answer, developing an approach and models, and analyses to see where you can make improvements. She assumes that you use modeling software, such as Rational System Architect, for your architecture.... [More]

Here are some more wonderful articles and a new blog highlighted last week over on developerWorks Rational : Why software quality assurance and IT security teams need to collaborate By: Jeff Laskowski, Senior IT Specialist, IBM If software development and quality assurance teams worked more closely together, they would be exponentially more effective, says the author. He explains why the approach he advocates improves both security and efficiency and describes how it incorporates security testing better into... [More]